Content tagged "colonialism"
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Rachel Thompson
Podcast: Sohail Daulatzai, “The Battle of Algiers as Ghost Archive: Specters of a Muslim International”
Sohail Daulatzai on The Battle of Algiers’ “competing narratives, a battleground over the meaning and memory of decolonization and Western power, and a site for challenging the current imperial consensus.”
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Posted by Aziria Rodríguez Arce S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2018
Topics: colonialism, diaspora, Facebook, Hurricane Maria, Internet, memes, Puerto Rico, socialismSeizing the Memes of Production: Political Memes in Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Diaspora
“This thesis seeks to understand how different groups of people in Puerto Rico and the diaspora deploy internet memes for political critique. In this work, I analyze three case studies focused on how Puerto Rican groups and individuals use internet memes to express political discontent, make calls to action, engage in catharsis, and seek political change.”
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Posted by Elise Chen
Podcast, andré carrington: “The Tip of the Iceberg: Sound Studies and the Future of Afrofuturism”
andré carrington’s research on the cultural politics of race in science fiction radio drama aims to expand the repertoire of literary adaptation studies by reintegrating critical perspectives from marginal and popular sectors of the media landscape into the advancing agendas of Afrofuturism and decolonization.
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Event: Thursday, March 8, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
The Tip of the Iceberg: Sound Studies and the Future of Afrofuturism
andré carrington’s research on the cultural politics of race in science fiction radio drama aims to expand the repertoire of literary adaptation studies by reintegrating critical perspectives from marginal and popular sectors of the media landscape into the advancing agendas of Afrofuturism and decolonization.
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Posted by Katie Arthur S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2017
Topics: Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, climate change, colonialism, COPINH, economics, hegemony, Indigenous Environmental Network, race, Standing Rock, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, The Wretched of the Earth, UK Tar Sands NetworkFrontlines of Crisis, Forefront of Change: Climate Justice as an Intervention into (Neo)colonial Climate Action Narratives and Practices
Radical media strategies, on the streets and on the airwaves, are central to the articulation of climate justice and the contestation of hegemonic meanings of climate action that legitimise colonial violence.